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Registration Details

Date: 4 December 1797

Registrant: Work, Jane

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Donegal

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sampson

Date of Birth: 18 June 1797

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Alice

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "slave"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Work, James

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: wife


Sources

  • Transcript: J. B. Eshleman, comp., "Record of the Returns Made in Writing"As Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 21, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA